“What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably
never heard or read in history books,” she likes to tell
audiences.

“I am a witness to history.

“I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and
guns; it would distort history.

Adolph Hitler

“We voted him in.”

If you remember the plot of the Sound of Music,
the Von Trapp family escaped over the Alps rather than submit
to the Nazis. Kitty wasn’t so lucky. Her family chose to stay
in her native Austria. She was 10 years old, but bright and
aware. And she was watching.

“We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent of the vote,”
she recalls.

She wasn’t old enough to vote in 1938 – approaching her
11th birthday. But she remembers.

“Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his
tanks and took Austria by force.”

Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy
daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for
food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t
any jobs.

“My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping
people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and
baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30
daily.’

“We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where
Hitler had been in power since 1933.” she recalls. “We had
been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and
they had a high standard of living.

Austrian girls welcome Hitler

“Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group –
Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone in
Germany was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria.
We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of
unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that
businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their
farms back.

“Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex
Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.

“We were overjoyed,” remembers Kitty, “and for three days
we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new
government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.

He has
combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign
to
our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his
assent to
their acts of pretended legislation. - Declaration of Independence
"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an
irate, tireless
minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." -
Samuel Adams

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one
who is
striking at the root."--
Henry David Thoreau

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